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Buying hybrid cars and installing solar panels are great ways to help save energy, but not an option for everyone who wants to do their part in the green movement. Try these simple tips to help protect the environment while also saving you some cash.

Maps of trash ... everything from cell phones to water bottles to hazardous waste. where it is made and where it goes

There was an article in my local paper about the financial concerns of this group. They create and teach others how to create low tech shellers that are used both for food nuts and biodiesel. They work on a miniscule budget and any attention they could get would be wonderful.

The United Nations proclaimed May 22nd as the International Day for Biodiversity to increase awareness and understanding of biodiversity issues. This years’ theme focuses on agriculture. Due to agricultural expansion, population growth, and misuse of agricultural technologies, our Earth’s biodiversity and natural resources are increasingly suffering dramatic consequences.

Step by step photo guide to making a dog waste composter out of common materials. How do you get rid of your dog's poop in an environmentally friendly way? There's something far better than collecting it in plastic bags and chucking it in a landfill.

There is an undeniable sense of “connectedness” growing in our world, everyone feeling it must jump to action and help improve the human experience for all.

If you ask the Colonel, he'll tell you that the only way to keep a prisoner in line is to see to it that he won't get up when you rub his face in the dirt. And the only way to keep the guards happy is to let them have their fun. That's the way it's always been down on the farm, because that's just how the Colonel likes it.

Does the environmental movement give consumers more of a choice, or does it take away from their choices by focusing on their negative effect (carbon footprint) in their everyday life?  This article discusses how the environmental movement brings more choices.  What do you think?

From a 30 years old sustainable German company coming to the US market to a Childcare organization in Uganda, more and more options are available to the conscious consumer when shopping.

A group of radiation-poisoned Torontonians stricken and dying on the sidewalk. Rescue teams with Geiger counters, stretchers and gas masks. This was the scene at several locations in downtown Toronto today where Greenpeace activists staged the aftermath of an accident at the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station.

A Minnesota man has set up a remote camera on a Metro area lake. The result is a rare, simply amazing story of Minnesota's state bird.

Tree-Nation is an ecological project with a focused objective: To plant 8 million trees in Niger, Africa to fight desertification. Large-scale plantation of trees will increase the land's productivity and re-generate the soil. It is also a is an online community in which you can buy your own tree and become its guardian.

Brighter Planet, a company which offers products that help individuals and companies fight global warming, has teamed with Bank of America to provide customers credit cards that can reduce their carbon footprint and fund

6,700 tons of sand contaminated with depleted uranium and lead is currently being shipped by rail from Longview, Washington to a hazardous waste disposal site in Idaho.